One doesn't need to look at nerd culture specifically, but look at the things that went into making Ready Player One. Cline's an awful writer, but he's unintentionally highlighted several decades worth of works depicting women as prizes to be won, to which men are entitled.
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Cline perpetuates this notion with absolutely no self-awareness, but if you trace all of the major works he endlessly spouts off in his works it's not hard to see why he, and many of his fans, think this way.
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Directing these men to sex workers doesn't help to break that way of thinking. If anything it endangers these women given that this mindsight inherently ignores the existence of personal boundaries.
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